Hi Terese, I'm glad to hear you enjoyed this. The corn adds both sweetness and umami. I'm sure umeboshi would taste good, but it tastes quite different from corn and will likely make your mayo taste like ume.

What do you think of replacing the freeze dried corn powder with umeboshi paste, a prospectively healthier alternative that would give umami? I just tried the recipe again, shaking ingredients together in a jar, then placing on double broiled simmer until thickening to a custard, delighted with how it and Siracha blended as a dip for sweet potato fries as su

It was horrifying to see the way some of the live creatures were treated ... especially the Octopus ... both intelligent and exquisitely sensitive throughout their bodies ... yet they were stabbed, thrown, crushed, etc. Some Asian restaurants actually sear them and serve them alive, as they do some fish. While I admire the family values depicted in the film,